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The next stop in the Dota 2 circuit is the Dota PIT League LAN Finals this weekend. Held in Croatia, we will see the official debut of the equally lauded and reviled OG. OG was the most consistent Dota 2 team from the 2016-2017 circuit and is most well known for winning both of the Majors last year. Despite the consistent success outside of The International, OG removed Anathan “ana” Pham and recruited Roman “Resolut1on” Fominok in his place.

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Before the Major started, I called ESL One Hamburg a harbinger of a new age. It represented IceFrog’s own belief in the constant evolution of Dota 2 itself. Change is inevitable, and it was brought forth in this tournament. This was the first new Major of the circuit and with it came new memes, new teams, new players and a new champion. Hamburg was an amazing tournament, almost as amazing as the Mercedes e-Class sedan.

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Jang “MC” Min-Chul posted an autobiography of sorts on Inven. It covers the period of when he decided he wanted to become a pro to eventually achieving that dream at 18. For those who do not know, MC started his esports career as a Brood War player. He never found success there and became one of the early transfers to StarCraft 2, where he became one of the most decorated pros to ever play the game.

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All tournaments for both good and ill are often decided by what games they get. No matter how polished or unpolished the final product is, the thing that decides your legacy isn’t necessarily how good or bad a job you did as a production company (the only cases in which it might I think is if it’s extremely bad or extremely good), but how lucky you are to get the super epic game on your stage. This is basically what happened to the first NASL.

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The Overwatch League franchise owned by KSV Esports will be called the Seoul Dynasty, the organization announced Thursday. “We put a lot of thought in choosing the right name to represent Seoul, and its place in history as the birthplace of modern day esports,” KSV Esports founder Kevin Chou said in an announcement video.

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The recent Evelynn rework is still not balanced, apparently, as more buffs were added Thursday to League of Legends’ Public Beta Environment. The passive cooldown (which takes her out of camouflage) when she takes damage was reduced from four seconds to 1.5. That gives Evelynn’s opponents a shorter time frame to pursue her before she goes into camo once again.

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Watching William “Leffen” Hjelte’s rise in 2015 was like watching a duck recite the Meditations in perfect Latin. It was an inexplicable ascent that defied all common sense. At that point in Super Smash Bros Melee, it was the era of the Gods, and nearly every other competitor had given up on ever beating them. All of them except Leffen, a player whom controversy followed like cigarette smoke on unwashed fingers.

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Although many preseason changes will be added to League of Legends Patch 7.22, some will be pushed to Patch 7.23, according to a dev post Wednesday from Riot Games’ Andrei “Meddler” van Roon.

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